Pipestem cleaner



Feb. 14, 1928. I 1,659,125

E. TJLDEN PIPE STEM CLEANER Filed Sept. 5. 1925 rs/Wu,

5.1.3 womw Ewe/v Patented Feb. 14, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

ELLSWORTH TILDEN, OF KENMORE, OHIO.

PIPESTEM CLEANER.

Application filed September 5, 1925. Serial No. 54,680.

This invention relates to a cleaner for the stem of a smoking pipe.

The main object is to provide a novel, simplified, inexpensive and eversharp cleaner which will cut the material loose rather than merely compress or pack it in the bore of the stem.

The more specific object and advantage will become more apparent from a consideration of the following description taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the cleaner partly in side elevation and partly in section,

Figure 2 is a front end View, and

Figure 3 is a rear end view.

7 in carrying out the invention a rod or plunger 10 of suitable gauge wire may be used being mainly a straight length but having an eyelet or finger piece 11 at one end termed in any suitable way as by coiling the wire.

Said rod 10 may be applied into the bore ot a pipe stem and reciprocated and turned to force the material into the pipe bowl, thereby dislodging the material. Frequently such act results only in packing or compressing the material in the stem.

In order that the device may be entirely ei'licient, I use in connection with rod 10, a cutter sheath or tube 12 which snugly fits the rod 10. Tube 12 is of very thin material so that its forward end, which is preferably irregular or otherwise than straight, will serve as a cutting edge. The thin material merely through the act of severance provides a suiiiciently sharp forward end 13, suited by the roughness of the cut or break for cutting or gouging. The rod 10 and tube 12 are relatively turnable and slidable and a linger piece may be provided as a double flange 14: at one end of said tube 12.

In using the device, it is preferably inserted into the bore of the pipe stem in the 4.5 condition shown in Figure 1 after which the tube 12 upon gripping flange 1st is rotated so as to cut or gouge at end 13 the clogging material which is thereupon discharged into the bowl of the pipe by reciprocating the rod 10 so that its outer end projects beyond the tube. In this manner the clogging mate, rial is dislodged or gouged and moved into the bowl of the pipe from which it may fall or be emptied.

Changes may be resorted to provided they are all within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

A pipe stein cleaner comprising a gouging tube, a solid rod slidable inthe bore thereof, and having a handle at one end impassable through the tube. said rod being of the same diameter as the bore and greater in length than the tube.

In testimony whereof I ailiX my signature.

ELLSXVORTH TILDEN. 

